Key facts

Official Name: Canada
Capital City: Ottawa
Type of Government: Constitutional monarchy
Official Languages: English and French
Area: 9,976,140 sq. km/ 3,851,788 sq. mi
Population: 33.5 million
Religion: Roman Catholic 42.6%, Protestant 23.3%, other Christian 4.4%, Muslim 1.9%, other and unspecified 11.8%, none 16%
Currency: Canadian Dollar (C$)
Number of Time Zones: Canada spans six time zones:

Newfoundland: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) minus 3.5 hrs; Eastern Standard Time (EST) plus 1.5 hrs

Atlantic: GMT minus 4 hrs; EST plus 1 hr

Eastern: GMT minus 5 hrs; same as EST

Central: GMT minus 6 hrs; EST minus 1 hr

Mountain: GMT minus 7 hrs; EST minus 2 hrs

Pacific: GMT minus 8 hrs; EST minus 3 hrs

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is observed, in all provinces except Saskatchewan, from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

See MAP of time zones and daylight saving time.

Weights and Measures: Metric system
Country Domain: .ca
Country Tel Code: 1